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Posted: **Tue Mar 09, 2004 5:31 pm**

Ive had my floppy disk drive for 8 years now :shock:

without any problems its worked on

Win95
Win98
winMe

the other night i purchased WinXP proffessional and it stopped working

it is in the Bios and everything though it boots straight into windows when i leave a floppy disc in when it should bring up the error when you leave a floppy in, also in windows when you try to use a floppy it says please insert floppy disc even though i have a floppy disc in there any thoughts on how to fix this ?

Posted: **Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:06 pm**

Have you looked in "Device Manager" to see if it has a ? or a !?
If it's listed and doesn't have any problems try removing it and rebooting and Windows will reinstall it.
Let us know.
brad

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Posted: **Wed Mar 10, 2004 2:37 pm**

Should a boot sequence not be IDE CD Floppy?

Posted: **Wed Mar 10, 2004 3:08 pm**

With WinXp I put CDROM ahead as that's what is usually used to boot to repair/etc. If it doesn't "see" a CD then it boots to the HD. If you needed to repair and it was set to boot from IDE then it wouldn't "see" the CD.
brad

Posted: **Wed Mar 10, 2004 5:11 pm**

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